Tingjun Huang

MSc student, Robotics, Systems and Control
ETH Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland

I am an MSc student in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. My interests lie in embodied AI and 3D vision, particularly how robots perceive their surroundings and use visual information for navigation and manipulation.

My recent projects span 3D reconstruction from 360° walkthroughs and reinforcement learning for dexterous manipulation.

I received my B.Eng. in Information Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in July 2025.

Portrait of Tingjun Huang

Research & projects

RIGOR: Rig-Informed Geometry for Omnidirectional Reconstruction

Feb - Aug 2026

3D vision research project

RIGOR (Rig-Informed Geometry for Omnidirectional Reconstruction) builds 3D maps from 360° construction-site walkthroughs using a frozen feed-forward model and four-view virtual camera rigs. The work focuses on virtual-rig-based local pose repair and multi-view geometric verification for loop closure before point-cloud fusion.

Dexterous Manipulation and PIP–DIP Coupling

Sep - Dec 2025

Real World Robotics · ETH Zurich

Assembled an ORCA hand and trained and deployed reinforcement learning for in-hand object reorientation. Completed imitation learning and color-based sorting tasks, followed by a team course project on proximal–distal interphalangeal (PIP–DIP) joint coupling.

Course

Original and modified ORCA finger designs showing the added distal joint

Efficient Visual Place Recognition

Sep 2023 - Nov 2024

Individual research project · SUSTech

Fine-tuned DINOv2 for visual place recognition and distilled its representations into a lightweight Mamba-based model, targeting efficient perception on mobile platforms.

Category-Specific Object Grasping

May - Jun 2024

Robotic Motion and Control · SUSTech

Co-developed category-specific grasping for a Kinova Gen3 Lite arm using GGCNN and YOLOv5, combining object detection with grasp prediction for irregularly shaped objects.

Visual Teach-and-Repeat Navigation

Oct 2023 - Sep 2024

Team project · SUSTech

Co-developed monocular visual navigation for differential-drive and Ackermann-steering platforms, using Gazebo and Webots for simulation.

Code

AR Gallery

Apr - Jun 2024

A real-time augmented-reality system using custom ArUco marker detection and Poisson blending for image fusion.

Code

AR Gallery pipeline from ArUco marker detection to artwork retrieval and image fusion

FPGA Digital Synthesizer

A three-oscillator FPGA synthesizer with adjustable waveforms, MIDI input and a Python interface.

Code

FPGA synthesizer setup with a MIDI keyboard, laptop, Nexys 4 DDR board and speakers

Experience

National University of Singapore

Jun - Sep 2024

Research Assistant · Artificial Intelligence Research Lab

Designed and implemented a social-navigation agent using vision-language models for high-level task reasoning and policy planning, supervised by Prof. Lin Shao.

Project pageCode

Language-instructed social navigation with vision-language tools and a reactive controller

RoboMaster · SUSTech Robotics Team

Sep 2022 - Aug 2023

Hardware & Embedded Systems Engineer

Designed custom PCBs and embedded firmware for mobile robots, including infrared control and power converters, and assembled and debugged hardware for competition use.

Code

RoboMaster energy mechanism with illuminated LED panels in the robotics workshop

Education

ETH Zurich

Sep 2025 - present

MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control

Additional information

Technical skills

  • Programming: Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Java.

  • Robotics & vision: PyTorch, ROS, Gazebo, Webots.

  • Development: Git, Linux.

  • Hardware: STM32, PCB design, FPGA development.

Selected honors

  • RoboMaster University Championship: First Prize, national competition (2023).
  • SUSTech Outstanding Student awards (2023, 2024) and Merit Student Scholarships (2022–2024).

Outside research

I enjoy long-distance running, badminton and playing the piano.